The question that
must be addressed is "Can there ever be a New State of
Palestine?"

While the
political world is always trying to "fix" the problem
using secular strategies and logic, they're forever
blind to the real issues that govern the opinions and
motives of the Israelis and Palestinians. Those reasons
are purely religious. More specifically, both sides
believe the land that makes up the State of Israel were
promised to them through Abraham by the Gods. We say
"Gods" because one is Jehovah and the other is Allah. Of
course the Muslims will argue both are one in the same,
the Jewish peoples flatly deny this claim. Both
consider the opposite view as blasphemous.

What muddies the water even more, it's true promises
were in fact made by the God Jehovah to each side
regarding their future roles throughout history.
We say "God Jehovah" here because the account of the
promises are recorded in the Torah book of Genesis, long
before the Islam religion came on the scene through
Muhammad.

The promises were
given to Abraham regarding his two sons. First there was
Ishmael born of his Egyptian servant named Hagar. It's
through this lineage the Arab nations and Mohammed would
come.

Secondly came
Isaac, the son born to Abraham by his wife Sarah. It's
through this lineage the Israelite nations would spring.

So we can see this age old dilemma of just who exactly
the lands of Israel belong to comes down to
understanding the promises

made by God
Jehovah, and that task, quite frankly, is easy and
obvious. So what's the problem?

The problem is the
promise lands of Israel were promised to Isaac.
Furthermore, the land was never to be divided, and the
lands promised are significantly more than the area the
State of Israel now occupies.

It's hard to see
any way towards a "Two State" solution. In fact, in
order for Jehovah's promise to be completely fulfilled,
Israel will need to recapture the entire lands promised
to them.

Found on this website are research tools one can use to
understand the history, present day, and the future destiny of these Holy Lands.

It's been said "if you can
get a child when he is 7, you'll have him forever". When it
comes to changing the next generation, one has to start when
they are very young. Education is the key. It's where you
instill the values that you want the next generation to live
with. For example, after the fall of Nazi Germany it was
imperative the next generation was wiped clean of the notions of
Nazism in order for the country to develop into a healthy, peace
loving democracy.

In this 88th episode of Pastor Joe Cortes' "Last Days" series,
he exposes the methods and motives surrounding the education of
modern day Palestinian youth, and a compelling argument for
Israel to never give up the Golan Heights area.

The complete "Last Days' series can be found on the Faith Cometh
By Hearing website located at
www.teachingfaith.com.
Look for the "Teaching Center" where you can choose the "Last
Days" series from the list. Keep in mind the teachings are
presented in the order they were recorded. Best to start with
number one, and move your way towards the present day teaching
that Pastor is still adding to the series.

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Declaration of the
state in 1988

A declaration of a "State of Palestine" took place in
Algiers on November 15, 1988, by the Palestinian National Council,
the legislative body of the Palestinian Liberation Organization
(PLO). The proclaimed "State of Palestine" is not and has never
actually been an independent state, as it has never had sovereignty
over any territory in history.

Currently, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), along
with the United States, the European Union, and the Arab League,
envision the establishment of a State of Palestine to include all or
part of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, living in
peace with Israel under a democratically elected and transparent
government. The PNA, however, does not claim sovereignty over any
territory and therefore is not the government of the "State of
Palestine" proclaimed in 1988.

The 1988 declaration was approved at a meeting in Algiers,
by a vote of 253-46, with 10 abstentions. The declaration invoked
the Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and UN General Assembly Resolution 181
in support of its claim to a "State of Palestine on our Palestinian
territory with its capital Jerusalem". The proclaimed "State of
Palestine" was recognized immediately by the Arab League, and about
half the world's governments recognize it today. It maintains
embassies in these countries (which are generally PLO delegations).
The State of Palestine is not recognized by the United Nations,
although the European Union, as well as most member states, maintain
diplomatic ties with the Palestinian Authority, established under
the Oslo Accords. Leila Shahid, envoy of the PNA to France since
1984, was named in November 2005 representing of the PNA for Europe.

The declaration is generally interpreted to have recognized
Israel within its pre-1967 boundaries, or was at least a major step
on the path to recognition. Just as in Israel's declaration of
independence, it partly bases its claims on UN GA 181. By reference
to "resolutions of Arab Summits" and "UN resolutions since 1947"
(like SC 242) it implicitly and perhaps ambiguously restricted its
immediate claims to the Palestinian territories and Jerusalem. It
was accompanied by a political statement that explicitly mentioned
SC 242 and other UN resolutions and called only for withdrawal from
"Arab Jerusalem" and the other "Arab territories occupied." Yasser
Arafat's statements in Geneva a month later were accepted by the
United States as sufficient to remove the ambiguities it saw in the
declaration and to fulfill the long held conditions for open
dialogue with the United States.
Current proposals

The current position of the Palestinian Authority is that all of the
West Bank and Gaza Strip should form the basis of a future
Palestinian state.

The main discussion during the last fifteen years has focused on
turning most or the whole of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank into
an independent Palestinian state. This was the basis for the Oslo
accords and it is favored by the U.S. The status of Israel within
the 1949 Armistice lines has not been the subject of international
negotiations. Some members of the PLO recognize Israel's right to
exist within these boundaries; others hold that Israel must
eventually be destroyed. Consequently, some Israelis hold that
Palestinian statehood is impossible with the current PLO as a basis,
and needs to be delayed.

The specific points and impediments to the establishment of a
Palestinian state are listed below. They are a part of a greater
mindset difference. Israel declares that its security demands that a
Palestinian entity would not have all attributes of a state, at
least initially, so that in case things go wrong, Israel would not
have to face a dangerous and nearby enemy. Israel may be therefore
said to agree (as of now) not to a complete and independent
Palestinian state, but rather to a self-administering entity, with
partial but not full sovereignty over its borders and its citizens.

The central Palestinian position is that they have already
compromised greatly by accepting a state covering only the areas of
the West Bank and Gaza. These areas are significantly less territory
than allocated to the Arab state in UN Resolution 181. They feel
that it is unacceptable for an agreement to impose additional
restrictions (such as level of militarization, see below) which,
they declare, makes a viable state impossible. In particular, they
are angered by significant increases in the population of Israeli
settlements and communities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during
the interim period of the Oslo accords. Palestinians claim that they
have already waited long enough, and that Israel's interests do not
justify depriving their state of those rights that they consider
important. The Palestinians have been unwilling to accept a
territorially disjointed state. It is feared that it would face
difficulties similar to Bantustans.

During the Annapolis conference, then Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert,
offered East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine and 99.3% of the
West Bank, in which .7% of the land would constitute as a safe
passage between the borders of Israel and Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas
rejected the offer.

Palestinian view

The Palestinian People see the mass immigration - mainly from
Europe, the United States of America, and Arabic countries - of
modern-day Israelis to this region of the world, their acts of
warfare, and the establishment of the state of Israel as an act of
illegal occupation. This occupation has consequences for hundreds of
thousands of Arab Palestinians living in refugee camps in several
countries in the world, including destruction of villages
perpetrated against those Palestinians that are still living in
their land today, and the increase in Israeli settlements in the
remaining Palestinian villages and lands.

Israeli views

The traditional Israeli view has been that there is no such thing as
a separate Palestinian people, distinct from other Arabs, at least
historically. The borders of historical Palestine and surrounding
countries were arbitrarily determined and there are already several
Arab nations. Therefore, it is unreasonable to demand that Israel
should have any responsibility or part in establishing a nation for
them. This is summarized by the famous statement of Israeli Prime
Minister (1969-74) Golda Meir: "There was no such thing as
Palestinians ... It was not as though there was a Palestinian people
in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came
and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did
not exist."

Arab views

Before the creation of Israel, Arab leaders supported the
creation of a united Arab state encompassing all Arab peoples
including Palestine, so that no independent Palestinian state
would exist, but this became a minority view amongst
Palestinians during the British Mandate, and after 1948 became
rare. It is still an opinion expressed regularly in the Arab
states outside Palestine (especially Syria due to its attachment
to the Greater Syria Movement which was launched in 1944 to
establish a "Syrian Arab" state that would include Lebanon,
Syria, Jordan and Palestine.) However, it is generally
recognized that such a development has become implausible under
current political realities and even those who might favor it in
some circumstances support an independent Palestinian state as
the most achievable option.

Syria joined Egypt in founding the United Arab Republic (UAR) in
1958 during a period of Pan-Arabism as the first step toward the
recreation of Pan-Arab state. The UAR was to include, among
others, Palestine. The UAR disintegrated into its constituent
states in 1961.

Egypt held Gaza and Jordan annexed the West Bank between 1948
and 1967. During those years, Egyptian President Nasser created
the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964. In 1959
Fatah was formed in Kuwait City, Kuwait by a group of ex-pat
Palestinian professionals, including Yasser Arafat working in
the Gulf states, with similar aims.

Nowadays, most Arabs (Christians and Muslims), and some anti-zionists
Jews, support Palestinians' rights to self-determination and
support Palestinian refugees and their right to return to their
homes and lands of origin in Palestine (what it is now Israel
and Palestinian territories)

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Why All
The Fuss With The
Tiny State Of Israel?

What is it
about the tiny State of Israel that has the
entire middle east community wanting to destroy
it? Why is it that Israel is able to hold off
their enemies being they are surrounded on every
side, and outnumbered and outgunned on a grand
scale?

Why is it the Palestinians must be crammed into
the 8,367 square miles of today's State of
Israel, compared to the surrounding 1,893,401
square miles of the countries that surround
them?

In this 86th episode of Pastor Joe Cortes' "Last
Days" series, he details the seemingly
significant disadvantages Israel has with all
their surrounding enemies.

The
Hatred of Old Against The State of Israel

Where does
the hatred of Israel stem from? One has to
search the Biblical history that shows the
divisions between the Israelites and Arab
nations. Now you may not believe that a God
called Jehovah created all things, or the
stories in the Bible are factual, that doesn't
matter, what matters is, the Israelites and the
Arab peoples do. Specifically the claim Abraham
was their father, and their rightful inheritance
includes the lands of Israel God promised to
Abraham. This is where the conflict starts. The
question comes down to which side is the
rightful heir.

In this study, Pastor Joe Cortes analyzes the
Biblical scripture to discover where the long
held hatred towards Israel began, and follows
its effects through history right up to the
modern day stand off and warfare at the borders
of Israel.

In this 87th episode of Pastor Joe Cortes' "Last
Days" series, he explains the history and
motives behind the exaggerated aggression
towards the prophetical land of Israel, and its
future.

There is a lot of confusion and misunderstanding in
today’s Christian world concerning biblical salvation.
This study will broaden your knowledge concerning this
topic by taking a serious look into the meaning of
repentance. It is not what most of the church world been
teaching. The Greek word metanoia has been mistranslated
which has brought a mass amount of confusion to the
Christian church. Salvation has always been a free gift
for those who believe in Jesus Christ with nothing
added.